Representing workers on arrangements for occupational safety and health in a global industry: dock-workers' experiences in two countries

Wadsworth, Emma Jane Kirsty ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8656-5907, Bhattacharya, Syamantak and Walters, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5973-1938 2015. Representing workers on arrangements for occupational safety and health in a global industry: dock-workers' experiences in two countries. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety 13 (2) , pp. 87-107. 10.1080/14774003.2015.11667819

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Abstract

Trade union support is a key pre-condition for effective autonomous worker representation and consultation on occupational safety and health. Using data from a recent study, this paper considers such support in container terminals in two countries with contrasting industrial, economic and labour relations’ profiles — Australia and India. Within globally determined corporate approaches, the study identified distinctly different models of participation and varied extent, reach and focus of external union support. Worker representation and participation arrangements were least well-developed and least effective where the role of organised labour was smallest — and where these arrangements were lacking, workers experiences of working conditions and occupational safety and health outcomes were poorer. The paper concludes that national labour relations and regulatory contexts were the main determinant of both the existence and quality of participatory arrangements and that, without conducive contextual influences, terminal operating companies had little place for such arrangements in their corporate occupational safety and health management strategies.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 11:01
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/87091

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